Right, comparisons 'r us. In the order given:
Original.
Allen: better controlled, pretty dull like the original, Bassdrum sort of rumbles interestingly, I like that. Vocal sounds very similar to the original.
Chris: apparently I like drum machines, because I contrived to have it much more present. Vocal is way more spotlit, but without sibilance getting out of control. Sort of grainy, thanks to all the treble boost. Sounds a bit like it was re-recorded, so great is the alteration. I still like it
Lee: hey, shaker! Voice is sort of weird as it's got roundness but a real tizzy edge. I like the bassdrum better than on mine- partly because I took away the reverb from behind it to make it more focussed. You can always have more bright than the next guy but it does tend to make things too upfront. I sympathise with this version completely. Brothers in bright
Bill: I'm really liking the rimshot. I'm really liking the bassdrum. I don't think anyone got a version that's better behaved than this- but it freaks me out how distant it sounds. Is that really what this guy was trying to do? I know that my and Lee's version must be hurting you over the tweeters-center Yamaha uberspeakers, but what you're doing isn't translating to my rig, and my rig is not exactly treble-shy. That said- my version and yours are doing something similar with the bassdrum there. What are you doing to make that happen?
Cary: I like the overall frequency balance here- like Allen's version, this is making the sloppiness of the original recording behave, without doing anything radical to the sound.
Very interesting. I guess my question now is: what did you mean by bass phase, Bill, and whatcha do? I know I mid/side EQed really radically, and then got medieval with group delay, roughly like this:
0-300hz, delayed very slightly
300-1K or so, forward a bit
1K-10K, baseline
10K+, forward even more
Since you got similar behavior off the bassdrum and all, how'd you adjust these things? Your methods would probably translate better for other people since I hadda write software to do it. I'd say whatever it was, it's worth doing.